AI personalities guide

[Alhrath]

Hello civ fans

As I'm improving my game, I can see that one of the very important things in planing your game is knowing what are the ways AI civs will behave. Therefore, I was looking for a compiled guide of the main characteristics of each civs when played with the AI but didn't found any. I mean, you can have all the game info in the wikia civ wiki, but it's a lot of numbers, and I guess a lot of noble-emperor players could get valuable infos in a guide which would sumarize the main aspects of theirs future targets/partners.

For instance, they is things everyone know, like Shaka is a warmonger, Isabella value your state religion, Suleiman is a huge techer, etc ... But trying to get to emperor, I realize that there is a lot of civs I don't really know what to expect from them.

So I would propose, with the help of top players here, to make an exhaustive guide on all the BTS civs with 3-4 main characteristics for each of them to remember when we come to meet them in a game.

Anyone interested ?

 

[rah]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=478563

 

[Alhrath]

Wow, ok thanks, I bookmark that right away ^^ I couldn't find it in the war academy. Cause it's still under construction ?

 

[lymond]

Wow, ok thanks, I bookmark that right away ^^ I couldn't find it in the war academy. Cause it's still under construction ?

The War Academy hasn't been updated in years. Keep in mind that this game is about 10 years old, so the War Academy finished "construction" some years ago. Although I think it could use updating.

Regardless, strategy articles are still produced by the fine folks here and can be found in the sub-forum to this very forum.

I also recommend watching some youtube Let's Plays as well for guidance. Just make sure you pick the right LPers.

Note that the info found in the article Rah linked was put together by a group of players that used info from game code, which has been pretty fleshed out by now. There's some spreadsheets and stuff with the numbers that was put together some years ago. You can find it somewhere here. Search for Kossin, as I think he links it in his sig.

You have the right thinking here. That info is very valuable and should improve your game a lot, especially in terms of diplo and exploiting the AIs.

 

[Tatran]

I also recommend watching some youtube Let's Plays as well for guidance.

IMHO, those Let's play civ videos are a waste of time and you'll learn almost nothing.
It's a passive process and consumes way too much time.
I've seen the first 7 videos (length average : 1 hour) Let's play the Dutch by Sulla,
while he's a great writer, but I'm not impressed by his gameplay (Emperor level).